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... or tells us something about the pronunciation...
If it's De-ian, it might be a variation of the Slavic Deyan, meaning "one who is active", if it's De-zhan, it might ve coming from French...
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Dejan is pronounced (Day-jahn).
It is a boys name but I don't know the country of origin , which is one of the things I would like to find out.Kind regards.
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Don't know the meaning, but..doesn't the name originate from the former Yugoslavia?
Possibly I'm confusing it with Deyan...But you could try lists of Serbian/Croatian names.
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Yep - try putting Croatian names Dejan into a good search engine...
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